Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know what consideration had been given to a prosecution of the defendants in this case at the time the letter was written . |
| 2 | We know people were treasuring this hope at the time of Jesus , because in the caves of Qumran there has turned up a messianic anthology which includes the prophecy given to David in 2 Samuel 7:14 . |
| 3 | If we again discount this income at the time or get it looks like that . |
| 4 | Celsus senior may have been very advanced to arrive at this conception at the time he did . |
| 5 | What we need to do is get our members and make them feel that they 're part of Europe , not dispossessed by it , at this moment in the time there 's not a lot for them in consideration of Europe . |
| 6 | A farmhouse probably stood on this site at the time of the Great Plague . |
| 7 | Naturally nobody would have made this distinction at the time and certainly Julian and all her friends thought that she was at death 's door . |
| 8 | We 're stuck in this place for the time being , and it appears there 's nothing we can do about that . |
| 9 | It will not always be possible therefore to guarantee availability for a specific joining point on the FREELINK service , nor can the FREELINK service be available to clients who have not made a reservation for this service at the time of booking . |
| 10 | Still on the subject of coaches , the national coaches from the leading powers will congregate in Hong Kong later this month at the time of the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sevens . |
| 11 | Erm , he worked , he was their sort of erm they had a few clubs and pubs in this area at the time and er |
| 12 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 13 | [ aside ] I 'll nip this bud by the time it begins to open and place it in my bosom for a year or two at least . |
| 14 | The school was one of those selected to take part in the county 's TVEI pilot scheme , but neither the art nor music department were involved in work on this project at the time of the research . |
| 15 | This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities . |
| 16 | It preceded the Beecham by some five years and , unless I am much mistaken , never appeared in this country at the time though it was included in an anthology RCA issued on LP ( 6/70 — nla ) . |
| 17 | Conversely , a foreign national resident abroad would find that the transaction with him was within the Act if , but only if , he was physically present in this country at the time of the transaction . |
| 18 | The creation of this order at the time a new Official Secrets Bill was being pushed through Parliament by an increasingly interventionist government is significant , and the idea of a senior officer 's having ‘ first read ’ of any essay to maintain the integrity of the institution manifests the importance of the legalized surveillance of allegedly dangerous material and enhances the separation of the world of control from that academic enquiry ; although its implementation is only randomly applied . |
| 19 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
| 20 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 21 | Frederica saw this observation at the time as a mark of signal failure of insight . |
| 22 | In the end , said Hartley , ‘ the pleasures of imagination must decline ’ — but Wordsworth , although recognizing the possibility in Tintern Abbey — was not to face up to this fact until the time of the Immortality Ode . |
| 23 | By inventing this yarn about the time Connie left the sanatorium , you 've tied yourself right in this thing . |